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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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A COUPLE had a romantic moment on a pier ruined by giant ‘sea monster’ photobombing them.

What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? Well, everything, actually!

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.

I was woken up this morning at an unseemly hour by a representative of what
my Father used to refer to as “the good old Honkers and Shankers”, what used to
be known as the 'Hong Kong, Shanghai Bank' and is now generally known as HSBC.
They claimed that there had been suspicious activity on my account, but as the
so-called ‘suspicious activity’ was a monthly subscription to a service which I
have paid for every month for the last five years, one wonders why they did so.
However, I would much rather that people checked, rather than handing out my
money willy nilly.

However, although I am not the slightest bit racist, and don’t care what
colour, creed or nationality people are as long as they don’t make a nuisance of
themselves, I do wish that when I am woken up by someone first thing in the
morning I do wish that they were fluent English speakers, and that their accent
wasn’t so strong that I had to ask them to repeat themselves every other
sentence. Doesn’t that make some degree of sense?

The first of a two part exclusive interview with the legendary Larry Wallis
by Jeremy, Doug says Goodbye to the irreplaceable John Wetton, Richard goes to
see Live Dead ‘69, John remembers Gary Duncan, and Jon looks at another Beatles
book, and reveals a secret from his murky past, and there is more, lots
more...

It’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive,
(Strange Fruit is missing in action this week), and part two of Jeremy Smith's
new project The Seven Deadly Sins. We also have columns from all sorts of folk
including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There
is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons
outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from
captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you
can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer.
If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo
Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is
power chaps, we have to share it!

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to
write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as
widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as
it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the
fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it
raining. See you tomorrow...

* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
(mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But
it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about
it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not
responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
guv!

* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one
totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she
squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown
cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably
assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly
mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
mention Archie and the Cats?